You’ve probably heard of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, that if you put a number of monkeys in front of typewriters, they’ll eventually type out some piece of literature. Mr. Burns tried this on The Simpsons, but became angry when one of the monkeys botched the famous Dickens opener above.1 The idea is that even a creature as dumb as a monkey, who is essentially just typing random keys, will at some point hit ...

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